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Dacier's Take on....“All I Want for the New Year”

As this holiday season draws to a close, and we begin to think about the challenges of 2014, we turned to our friends – all of whom are trying to help people with very basic needs – and put out the query: “What are your hopes for the New Year?”

Here are the answers we got:

Chief Judge Frank Bailey (U.S. Bankruptcy Court):

All I Want for the New Year Is…for every student to leave high school knowing that a $50 pizza dinner purchased on a credit card that bears interest of 22.8% over 10 years really costs $487.49….so my hope is that many BBA members will sign up to teach in the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Program in 2014!

This committee focuses on forms of relief that arise when a noncitizen is in removal proceedings; detention issues (Know Your Rights, release under bond, orders of supervision, credible fear interviews); and immigration consequences of crimes and post-conviction relief.

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Melissa Bordeaux

This committee offers resources to assist BBA members to locate immigration-related pro bono opportunities in the Boston area and supports the efforts of local immigration legal services. Some of the projects we support include: asylum, KYRs to the detained population, VAWA, U and T visas, status for unaccompanied minors, TPS, and citizenship.

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Julie Dahlstrom

Casa Myrna Vazquez

(617) 521-0100

jadahl@bu.edu

Veronica Serrato

This committee focuses on forms of relief that arise when a noncitizen is in removal proceedings; detention issues (Know Your Rights, release under bond, orders of supervision, credible fear interviews); and immigration consequences of crimes and post-conviction relief.